I was an onion in fruit salad. Nobody understood me, appreciated me, welcomed me. Until I met other onions and figured out we’re sweet, we’re appropriate in fruit salad as in chili. Understanding me, you let me love myself.
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Whenever Pain
Isolating doesn’t stop pain, doesn’t ward off fear, doesn’t mend hearts. I know. I tried. How many times, how many years I tried. Addiction doesn’t stop pain, doesn’t ward off fear, doesn’t mend hearts. I know. I tried. How many […]
Continue reading »Best Ever
To come and sit as one in time of change — to rest, embraced at heart, despite large strides down sundry paths — I’m blessed.
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You’re only doing that to make me look bad. You want to embarrass me, to bring scorn on me. Why do you hate me that much? What do you mean, who am I? I’m who you obsess over, who you […]
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I feel like an idiot, standing here, conversing with a rock. Why I should have come makes no sense, seems pointless, cruel even. Heck, I didn’t come when they planted you here, haven’t been these twenty years since, shouldn’t be […]
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